Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86/ras: Merge Intel and AMD ppin_init() functions

From: Luck, Tony
Date: Tue Jan 18 2022 - 16:03:25 EST


On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 09:02:41PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 02:54:38PM -0800, Tony Luck wrote:
> > +} ppin_info[] = {
> > + [X86_VENDOR_INTEL] = {
> > + .feature = X86_FEATURE_INTEL_PPIN,
> > + .msr_ppin_ctl = MSR_PPIN_CTL,
> > + .msr_ppin = MSR_PPIN
> > + },
> > + [X86_VENDOR_AMD] = {
>
> X86_VENDOR_AMD is index 2 not 1 so ppin_info[1] is empty.
>
> I wouldn't mind swapping the numbers here in a pre-patch:
>
> #define X86_VENDOR_CYRIX 1
> #define X86_VENDOR_AMD 2
>
> nothing would depend on those naked numbers, right? :)

You are much braver than I :-) How confident are you
that nobody implicitly depends on those? Is it worth the
risk/churn just to save 12 bytes in the ppin_info[] array?

I'll fix up all the other stuff you found and post a V2
soon. Thanks for the review.

-Tony